From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Manfred Hollstein <manfred@s-direktnet.de>
To: law@cygnus.com
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Mail list delays
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 02:26:00 -0000
Message-id: <13621.52734.700259.487343@slsvhmt>
References: <23568.892620968@hurl.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 1998-04/msg00623.html

On Wed, 15 April 1998, 00:16:08, law@cygnus.com wrote:

 > 
 > I haven't timed a message recently, but I suspect the multi-day
 > delay problem should be much better now.

Yes, it is! Today I sent a message at around 8:30am and got it back
from the list at around 9:30am. Thank you for the effort!

 > 
 > Some recent changes we made to the mail configuration on Cygnus's
 > mailserver have reduced the size of the bulk queue to about 1/3
 > of its previous steady state size.  As a result I think messages
 > are getting to most recepients much quicker than before.
 > 
 > We've got more changes planned, but it will be a while before we
 > can implement them.  Hopefully the recent changes are enough to
 > keep things from getting too bad before we can put the long term
 > fixes in place.
 > 
 > 
 > I'm kinda hoping that the duplicate mail message problem was due to
 > a locking/race issue or some such that was exposed by the huge 
 > queues.  If not we'll have to do more digging.

I haven't seen dups recently.

 > 
 > jeff

manfred